From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: George Haddad Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/09/27 Message-ID: <324C2CA0.3096@lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185722574 references: <51knkn$j61@dub-news-svc-8.compuserve.com> <01bba638$e913f800$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com> <324844D7.1507@trw.com> <52g7f6$1fv0@uni.library.ucla.edu> <324BF0E1.74A7@sandia.gov> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin M & S, Sunnyvale, CA mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: george.haddad@lmco.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kent Budge wrote: > The mathematical concept of "successor to i", which corresponds quite > closely to the C notation "i++", has been a fundamental part of > mathematics (in the guise of typographical number theory) since at > least the time of Hilbert. Disclaimer: I am not any kind of mathematician. Observation: Ada models the notion of the "successor of i" much more closely (IMHO) with T'SUCC(i). AFAIK, "the successor of i" does not imply that i _changes_ as a result. Of course, if you are referring to i as used in sigma and pi notation (i.e., summations and product sequences) then one might think of i as "taking on the value of its successor". -- I found these opinions on my doorstep, would you please give them a good home?